“Nancy Goslee Power is to landscape what Frank Gehry is to architecture,” famed California historian Kevin Starr once remarked. The architect himself calls her “a very special landscape designer. Her understanding and love of plant material makes a big difference to her designs.” Nancy designed gardens for several of Gehry’s projects, including the Norton Simon Museum, as well as for other prominent architects: Rem Koolhaas, Michael Maltzan, Steven Ehrlich, Marmol Radziner, and Rios Clementi Hale. With a strong emphasis on plants well-suited to California’s mediterranean climate, she has designed exquisite landscapes for both public and private clients, gardens that seamlessly integrate indoor and outdoor spaces.

Much of Nancy’s career has been devoted to creating gardens for children. She is passionate about the need for children to be exposed to nature. She has designed gardens for the Garden School Foundation, which creates schoolyard gardens in Los Angeles that provide students with hands-on opportunities. Other gardens for children include Kidspace Children’s Museum, the Skid Row non-profit Inner-City Arts, and The Children’s Institute community center.

Nancy has authored two books, the classic The Gardens of California: Four Centuries of Design from Mission to Modern and Power of Gardens, a monograph of her design work, for which she received a Silver Award of Achievement from the Garden Writers Association. She has received many other honors throughout her career, including the 1999 Henry Francis du Pont Medal in landscape design, the prestigious Artist in Residence award at the American Academy in Rome in 2004, and the 2005 House Beautiful Giants of Design Award. She is highly esteemed by her colleagues, clients, and friends for so many things – mentoring young designers, her exceptional design skills, a collaborative spirit, and her endless fascination with plants and gardens.